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Healthy living
Healthy living
A Healthy City provides conditions and opportunities that support healthy lifestyles.
Important issues.
Preventing noncommunicable diseases. Scaling up efforts and strengthening local partnerships to tackle the epidemic of noncommunicable and chronic diseases through population-based integrated approaches addressing the risk factors and social determinants of these diseases.
Local health systems. Strengthening the capacity of local health systems,
including public health services and primary health care services, to prevent,
control and manage cardiovascular disease, cancer, respiratory disease and
alcohol-related disease.
Tobacco-free cities. Implementing and enforcing city-wide smoke-free policies in
public and working spaces.
Alcohol and drugs. Developing intersectoral plans of action to prevent alcohol
and drug abuse.
Active living. Making active living, physical activity and pedestrian mobility a
core part of city development policies and plans.
Healthy food and diet. Increasing equitable access to healthy food and
broadening the understanding of healthy eating habits.
Violence and injuries. Introducing policies and plans to deal with all aspects of
violence and injuries in cities, including violence involving women, children and
older people, road crashes and home accidents.
Healthy settings. Supporting programmes on healthy living and mental wellbeing
that would be implemented through the settings of people’s everyday lives,
such as neighbourhoods, schools and workplaces.
Well-being and happiness. Broadening the understanding of and exploring and
promoting the factors and conditions that support well-being and happiness,
reduce stress and enhance the resilience of communitie
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